Inner Traditions imprint: 307 books
Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies
Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2003
Reveals the true nature of medieval belief in the Double of the Soul
• Demonstrates the survival of a pagan belief that each individual owns three souls, including a double that can journey outside the physical body
• Explains the nature of death and the Other World hidden beneath...
The Way of Beauty
Five Meditations for Spiritual Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Five meditations on the role of beauty in human life and its direct connection with the sacred
• Looks at how beauty has the power to elevate and counterbalance the negative side of the reality facing us
• Presents the role of beauty in transforming individuals and transforming the...
The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism
Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
A profound understanding of the surrealists’ connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works
• Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to...
The Magic Language of the Fourth Way
Awakening the Power of the Word
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
An application of Gurdjieffian principles to fully and properly activate the power of language
• Explains the relationship between the Gurdjieff enneagram and sacred geometry and harmonics
• Shows that the objective power of language--and art and music--lies in the ability to use...
The Doctrine of Awakening
The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
In a probing analysis of the oldest Buddhist texts, Julius Evola places the doctrine of liberation in its original context. The early teachings, he suggests, offer the foremost example of an active spirituality that is opposed to the more passive, modern forms of theistic religions. This sophisticated,...
Introduction to Magic
Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
The rites, practices, and texts collected by the mysterious UR group for the use of aspiring mages.
• Rare Hermetic texts published in English for the first time.
• Includes instructions for developing psychic and magical powers.
In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian...
by Thomas Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1986
Authentic memoirs of the life of Pythagoras--the father of philosophy and the inventor of geometry--hold the great interest for every lover of wisdom. Iamblichus' biography is universally acknowledged as deriving from sources of the highest antiquity. Its classic translation by Thomas Taylor was first...
Ecstatic Healing
A Journey into the Shamanic World of Spirit Possession and Miraculous Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Understanding ecstatic spirit possession for physical and spiritual healing
• Details the author’s direct experiences working with Brazilian miracle healer John of God (João de Deus) and African high shaman Credo Mutwa
• Includes stories of psychic surgery, spirit possession,...
Original Magic
The Rituals and Initiations of the Persian Magi
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A complete guide to the theory, practice, and history of Mazdan magic, the first organized system of magic
• Provides a complete curriculum of magical study and initiation centered on exercises keyed to the sacred Zoroastrian calendar
• Details advanced magical rituals and practices...
The Science of the Rishis
The Spiritual and Material Discoveries of the Ancient Sages of India
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
A complete introduction to Sanatana Dharma, the spiritual science of the Hindu sages
• Examines how many core concepts of Hinduism, including Brahman, Atman, bhakti, karma, and reincarnation, relate to modern science
• Explores the scientific discoveries of the rishis, ancient Vedic...
The Spiritual Science of the Stars
A Guide to the Architecture of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
The profound influence of ancient cosmologies on our ideas about the human spirit
• Shows how ancient myths contain a sophisticated understanding of our relationship to the cosmos, derived from thousands of years of observation of the night sky
• Explains how ideas of the mind and...
Tantric Quest
An Encounter with Absolute Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
The author reveals his passionate experiences with a female Tantric master who taught him the suppressed practices of her ancient order.
In 1968 Daniel Odier left Europe for the Himalayas, searching for a master who could help him go where texts and intellectual searching could no longer take him....
Forgotten Civilization
The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Scientific confirmation of advanced civilization at the end of the last ice age, the solar catastrophe that destroyed it, and what the evidence
means for our future
• Demonstrates, based on the 12,000-year-old megalithic complex of Göbekli Tepe, that advanced civilization extends thousands...
A New Reformation
Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
A modern-day theologian’s call for the radical transformation of Christianity
• Echoes the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther in 1517
• Addresses the corruption and authoritarian tendencies that distinguish today’s Christian institutions from the spiritual message upon which...